Obama Wants To Be Next Pope

Obama Wants to Be the Next Pope

WASHINGTON, DC - Sources close to the White House have learned that Barack Obama is planning to run for the office of Pope when the College of Cardinals convenes to elect a successor to ailing Benedict XVI at the end of this month.

Calling on the promise of Equality for All, Obama is said to firmly believe that the time has come for a non-Catholic to occupy the Vatican's highest office. Foreseeing a looming citizenship issue he claims to have discovered an Italian birth certificate that proves he was born in Rome before he was born in Kenya. "That Hawaiian birth certificate never has been worth what I paid for it anyway", he noted. Continuing, he concluded, "And there's no way that a handful of cardinals could be more expensive to buy than 10 million voters in Michigan."

Further questions should be directed to Obama's Papal Campaign Manager, Abdul Azeem Khan.

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I Voted -- But it didn't fix anything

Moon at Jockey's Ridge

This is a view of the full moon over the massive sand dunes at Jockey's Ridge in Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Photoshop composite was created by my friend Tom Hassell and is the best Windows desktop background image I have ever used. -- Dalton Hammond

Full Moon at Jockey's Ridge

Discovering Pluto

In the old days astronomers would often take pictures of the same area of the sky several nights apart. They could then study the images in a binocular viewer that combined the images. By closing one eye or the other the astronomer could spot planets, comets, or dwarf planets, all of which moved across the stars, which don't move.

I took these two images four nights apart using the 16" Slooh robotic telescope at Mount Teide observatory in the Canary Islands. Can you spot the object which moves between the two 5-minute exposures? If you can, just think: If you had noticed it 83 years ago, YOU would have been listed as the discoverer of Pluto. -- D.H.